Tag: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Criterion Collection: Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972) | Blu-ray Review
Criterion scores ones of the most immersive additions to their prestigious collection with the recuperation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1972-73 eight hours plus five...
Criterion Collection: Baal (1970) | Blu-ray Review
A missing cornerstone of Brechtian and New German Wave cinema is at last recuperated with the resurrection of Baal, a 1970 German television...
2017 Berlin Intl. Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Most Anticipated Films
As the 67th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival kicks off, we run blazing into a new year of auteur worship. While the...
Criterion Collection: Fox and His Friends | Blu-ray Review
To revisit Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends in 2017, some forty years after its 1975 release, is to realize how unnervingly astute...
Tenderness of the Wolves | Blu-ray Review
At long last, a worthy digital transfer has been granted the rather grim and horrific Tenderness of the Wolves, an obscure title from the...
Criterion Collection: The Merchant of Four Seasons |Blu-ray Review
“We’re all pigs,” remarks a character late in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1971 classic The Merchant of Four Seasons, on observation one could apply to...
Criterion Collection: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant | Blu-ray Review
Premiering at the Berlin Film Festival in the summer of 1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant didn’t open to...
